Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Current Affairs 14 October, 2014 : "Saradha scam" Sale of Mamata Banerjee’s painting for Rs 1.8 crore under CBI lens. West Bengal CM and Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee looks at her own paintings at an exhibition in Kolkata.

New Muslim party plans to ride Modi wave in Tamil NaduTo tackle Naxalites, govt to increase boots on groundGujarat hikes women’s quota in govt jobs to 33%'Nitish Kumar may not be Bihar CM candidate'Gaffe-prone Prasar Bharati staff asked to take skill testManipur rebel outfit pulls out of peace talksNorm tweak a must for national calamity tagCPS Gujjar's men allegedly assaulted a TV journalist at a meeting in ChandigarhIndian cop wins UN's international female peacekeeper awardHudhud aftermath: Visakhapatnam remains without power, essential commoditiesHeavy rainfall lashes Uttar PradeshUN ignores Pakistan's bid to seek intervention on KashmirPM Narendra Modi to visit cyclone-hit Vizag today to take stock of situationHudhud spares OdishaCaught in the act, boy killed, girl poisoned in UPElection Commission probes BJP using Narendra Modi’s US speech as campaign propaganda80% Haryana farmers at BPL levels: StudyPoliticians may have flashed the `development' card while campaigning, but a recent study reports that 80% farmers in the state are reeling under debt.Will west Haryana dodge the NaMo surge once again?At the state-wide level, the BJP led in 52 of the 90 assembly segments in the Lok Sabha polls, a huge improvement over the four seats it had won in the 2009 assembly polls.As India-US ties thaw, Devyani Khobragade speaks outBreaking her silence for the first time since she was brought back to India after her diplomatic immunity was established, Khobragade repeated the allegations that she had been blackmailed by her former maid Sangeeta Richards.

Modi govt wants Jammu & Kashmir elections on timeWith Jammu & Kashmir floods having receded and signs of normalcy returning to the state, there is a view in the government that assembly polls should be held as per schedule.Islamabad briefs P-5 to internationalize Kashmir issueSeeking to further internationalize the J&K issue, Pakistan on Monday briefed the envoys of P-5 countries on the LoC situation asking them to urge India to respect the ceasefire.India won’t make first move to lower tension along Pakistani borderAccording to top government sources, India is in no mood to make the first move to de-escalate border tension with cross-border firing that began over two weeks ago.Rajnath Singh takes stock along border in J&KUnion home minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the situation along the international border in Jammu & Kashmir.Panel on arms purchases to meet once a monthBy this move, defence minister Arun Jaitley hopes to bring regularity to a process, which under the previous regime had become an inconsistent routine, sometimes being held once in several months.India, Pakistan PMs will decide on attending Nobel ceremony, President Pranab Mukherjee saysWith rival mortars continuing to boom across the border, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday left it to the prime ministers of India and Pakistan to take a call on Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s invitation to them to attend the award ceremony in Norway in December.India pledges $4 million for Gaza reconstructionAssembly polls to test Congress’s quota gambitDevendra Fadnavis leads race in BJP for top job in MaharashtraSnoopgate: ‘Inquiry commission was intrusion on privacy, snooping was not’Scotland says Palestine must be recognized as an independent stateScotland’s external affairs minister Humza Yousaf said, “Palestine should be recognized as an independent state, enabling it to open its own UK embassy”.UK parliament votes to recognize Palestinian stateBritish lawmakers have voted in favor of recognizing Palestine as a state, a symbolic move intended to increase pressure for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Police removing barriers in Hong Kong protest zoneUS officials launch review of Ebola proceduresIran and West will solve nuclear crisis: Iran presidentChina gives death to 12 for Xinjiang violenceYazidi women & kids in custody, ISIS boasts of reviving slaveryNew Manhattan Tower is now the tallest, if not the fairest, of them allAmerican plane makes emergency landing at SFOUS officials launch review of Ebola proceduresSchool forces girl, 5, to sign ‘no suicide’ deal over ‘crayon gun’UK parliament votes in symbolic motion to recognize Palestinian stateVikings' European treasure trove unearthed in ScotlandScotland says Palestine must be recognized as an independent stateVoting age should be lowered to 16: StudyBritain investigates death of British-Indian surgeon in SyriaIndian embassy in Kuwait simplifies visa procedureIndian-Canadian is Canada's new envoy to IndiaIndian-origin woman jailed for 26 months in Singapore

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